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I think common sense is on life-support! I teach high school auto shop and because of a burn one of my students received, I had to place this warning sign on my oxygen acetylene cutting torch. Using this cutting torch, I had just cut a rather large bolt off of a steering box and the hot nut fell on the floor. A student reached down with his bare hands and picked up that nut, and of course burned himself. He then yelled at me for not telling him that that nut would be hot. I would have thought that the fact that I just cut it off with a torch and it was on the ground still glowing red would be a clue that it would be hot. So now I put a sign on the torch and I spend some time during safety training to tell them to not pick up a glowing red nut off of the floor!

Just a reminder: while in office, Mendel physically confronted and harassed journalists (video attached). She did not hold the position for long, but during that time she was involved in multiple cringe-worthy scandals and controversial statements. Some of my colleagues in D.C. have been texting me for a while asking what happened to her. The answer is simple: nothing happened to her — she was always like this. Inside Ukraine, she was never taken very seriously. Somehow, though, she managed to build credibility abroad, especially in the U.S., and gained a large following on Twitter. Zelenskyy’s team was very different when he first took office compared to what it is today. But even back then, they quickly realized hiring her was a mistake, and she was let go. The only real difference now may be that she is acting openly as a Russian asset. Or perhaps she is simply trying to use this scandal to gain legal status in the U.S. as someone claiming political persecution.

🚨 SCOOP: Army chief was overruled on £1bn deal to buy helicopters he didn’t want. Ministers pushed through the deal against CGS’ advice. General Sir Roly Walker said the Army had more urgent needs — like drones & digital to get war ready by 2027 thesun.co.uk/news/39078478/…

Why is Iranian propaganda so effective? Because it’s accurate.

CNN: The Russian ship "Major Ursa" that sank in the Mediterranean Sea in December 2024 near the coast of Algeria apparently carried two key components of nuclear reactors intended for North Korea, likely for its submarine industry. The ship's captain, who was arrested in Spain, revealed that there were "components for two nuclear reactors similar to those used in submarines" on board, but he does not know if it also carried nuclear fuel. A week after the sinking, the Russian research and espionage ship "Yantar" arrived in the area and stayed above the shipwreck for five days, after which four more explosions were recorded in the area. It was also reported that the U.S. Air Force twice sent a special aircraft to the area to detect nuclear materials, aiming to collect and analyze radioactive residues. It has not been disclosed whether signs of nuclear contamination were found at the site.

Don't mix that up. Mendel bashing Ukraine with Carlson has only one goal: weaponizing corruption to give the Trump administration and russians more leverage to pressure Ukraine to capitulate. Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies charging Yermak is a clear example of institutions functioning independently and professionally, exercising their powers in defense of democracy, building internal resilience of the state to prevail in the war of attrition. As simple as that — for everyone who genuinely cares about Ukraine.

I don’t think “prolonged close contact” is what people think it is. In epidemiology it’s being within 6 ft for cumulative 15 minutes in a 24 hour period.

Друз, є хтось, хто займається маскувальними сітками? Треба літня на вантажне авто. Прошу рт

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The report says the attacks began in early April. They’ve hardly been “secret“ to Iran, which has been hammering the UAE with little restraint every chance it gets and basically accusing it of being an extension of Israel. Whoever leaked this, however, wanted to further alienate the UAE from the other GCC states.

The ISW reports that Russia used the "truce" to regroup rather than to de-escalate. Combat operations did not cease for a single day. While the "silence regime" was in effect, the Russian Federation brought up reserves and built up personnel. It sharply increased the use of "Molniya" drones - likely stockpiled in advance specifically for this purpose. understandingwar.org/research/russi…

Afghanistan and Pakistan allowed Iranian aircraft to park in bases within their country during the war with the US to avoid strikes-CBS Wow and Pakistan mediated the deal…

Trump is not with us. He is in some kinda imaginary world of his making. He is winning the Iran war. His poll numbers are over the chart, he is not a rapist and a pedophile. He hardly knew Jeffery Epstein. The gas prices are still $1.89 per gallon, and he is a master level golfer. If that doesn’t scare you, our country will not survive him.

Until 2024, only 3 losses at this location were documented on WarSpotting. After reviewing ground footage, that number rose to 25. If you have more ground or drone footage of the area, please reach out; many losses here remain undocumented.

its weird how russia says the ceasefire ended only last night at midnight and they were good little boys who didnt violate it not even once and yet today they posted like 70 new combat videos some with like 100+ drone strikes in them. Musta been busy this morning.

Watch this short documentary with English subtitles. This is Fatemeh Sepehri one of the loudest voice against Islamic Republic, imprisoned by the Islamic Republic, diabetic, suffering from heart disease, and denied proper medical care. Regime is willing to let her die in silence.

Your brain physically rewrites itself every time you pick up a pen. Neuroscientists at Norwegian University scanned students' brains while they handwrote letters versus typing the same letters on a keyboard. The results shattered decades of assumptions about how we process information. Handwriting activated massive networks in the sensorimotor cortex, the visual processing centers, and the hippocampus simultaneously. Complex neural symphonies lit up across multiple brain regions, creating rich interconnected pathways between motor control, visual recognition, and memory formation. Typing the same letters? The brain activity looked like someone had dimmed the lights across entire cognitive districts. The neural networks that flourished during handwriting simply went dark. The difference? When you form letters by hand, your brain constructs elaborate spatial maps of each character. The motor cortex learns the precise pressure, angle, and trajectory needed to create an 'A' versus a 'B.' Your visual system tracks the ink flowing from pen to paper in real time. Your parietal lobe integrates hand position with eye movement. Your hippocampus encodes not just what you wrote, but how the writing felt, where you paused, which words required more pressure. Typing activates almost none of that circuitry. You press a key, a letter appears. The motor movement is binary. The visual feedback is uniform. The spatial relationship between thought and symbol gets mediated by a machine that standardizes every character into identical fonts and spacing. Your brain treats these as fundamentally different cognitive tasks. The evolutionary context makes this obvious once you see it. Human hands developed for manipulation, creation, and fine motor control over millions of years. We painted on cave walls, carved bone tools, and shaped clay vessels long before we invented written language. When writing emerged 5,000 years ago, it built on top of existing neural infrastructure that already connected hand movement with symbolic thinking. Keyboards appeared 150 years ago. Touchscreen typing maybe 20 years ago. From an evolutionary timeline perspective, we started using them approximately yesterday. Our brains are still running ancient software that expects physical engagement with symbols. That software produces dramatically different learning outcomes. Students who take handwritten notes consistently outperform students who type the same information on memory tests, comprehension assessments, and creative applications of the material. The difference persists even when researchers account for typing speed, note length, and time spent studying. The act of forming letters by hand forces deeper processing at the moment of information encounter. You cannot handwrite as fast as someone speaks, so your brain must actively filter, summarize, and prioritize information in real time. The motor effort required to form each word creates additional memory traces that typing does not generate. Children who learn to write letters by hand develop reading skills faster than children who learn letters primarily through typing or screen interaction. The sensorimotor experience of creating letterforms helps their brains recognize those same letterforms when they encounter them in text. Adults who handwrite shopping lists, daily schedules, or meeting notes remember the information better than adults who type identical lists into phones or computers. The spatial memory of where you wrote something on a page provides retrieval cues that digital text does not offer. These findings collide directly with how education and work environments have evolved over the past two decades. Schools replaced handwriting instruction with typing classes. Offices converted from paper systems to fully digital workflows. Students take notes on laptops. Professionals draft documents on screens. We optimized for speed and efficiency while accidentally severing the neural pathways that evolution spent millions of years developing. The implications reach beyond memory and learning into fundamental questions about human cognition. If the physical act of forming symbols changes how your brain processes ideas, what happens to thinking itself when you remove the physical component? Digital text is infinitely searchable, instantly editable, and perfectly shareable. But it may be creating brains that process information more superficially, store memories less durably, and connect ideas more weakly than brains that regularly engage in handwriting. The neuroscience suggests we traded cognitive depth for technological convenience without realizing what we were giving up. Some of the most innovative thinkers across history were obsessive handwriters. Darwin kept detailed handwritten journals. Einstein worked through complex theories in handwritten notebooks. Virginia Woolf wrote her novels by hand before transcribing them. Steve Jobs famously took handwritten notes during Apple meetings even as he was building the most advanced computers on Earth. Perhaps they intuited something about the relationship between hand, brain, and insight that we measured in brain scanners but somehow forgot in practice. Your pen is literally a cognitive enhancement device that activates neural networks digital keyboards cannot reach.

The Telegraph published an article titled “Putin is down. This is the time to start kicking him.” It’s a very powerful piece that deserves a detailed analysis. The author is Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and commander of the UK’s Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment. This is a rare instance where a high-ranking Western military officer is directly telling the West: stop making concessions to Putin; it’s time to finish him off. “For the first time in two decades, Russia could not muster a single tank in what is traditionally the Kremlin’s grand annual exhibition of military might – an event Putin himself describes as a warning to Russia’s enemies. What the world witnessed was not power, but weakness: a diminished parade, hollow symbolism, and a regime increasingly fearful of its own vulnerability.” “With Ukrainian drones and missiles now capable of striking deep inside Russia, Putin clearly dared not risk displaying valuable military hardware at a known time and location. Instead, the regime relied heavily on massed marching formations, including North Korean troops, to create the illusion of scale and strength.” A British colonel bluntly states what we have seen ourselves: Putin fears Ukrainian drones so much that he canceled the display of equipment at his own celebration. “Even Putin’s speech, usually a lengthy endurance test in which the dictator indulges in imperial nostalgia and Soviet-era rhetoric, was remarkably brief and muted. Gone was the swagger of a leader convinced of inevitable victory. In its place stood a man attempting to justify an increasingly costly and strategically catastrophic war. Putin insisted Russia was fighting a “just” war and described Ukraine as an “aggressive force” being armed by NATO.” From “Kyiv in three days” to a “just war” against NATO. This is not the rhetoric of a victor. Separately, the author mentions Russia’s hybrid war against the West: “It is Russia, not the West, that has spent years conducting a sustained hybrid war against Europe and particularly the United Kingdom. The murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury remain chilling reminders of the Kremlin’s willingness to conduct state-sponsored attacks on British soil, alongside relentless cyber warfare, sabotage and espionage across Europe.” This is an important point for Western readers — a reminder that Russia was waging war against them even before 2022. And it continues to do so everywhere to this day. Cut cables, blown-up warehouses, planes in NATO airspace — this is war, just without missiles for now. “Today, the battlefield reality is moving increasingly in Ukraine’s favour. Ukrainian forces continue to make incremental but meaningful advances while Russia suffers appalling losses in both manpower and equipment.” “At the same time, Ukraine has demonstrated an increasingly sophisticated ability to strike strategically important targets deep inside Russia, even without large-scale American military support. Critical infrastructure attacks are now placing growing pressure on the Russian economy and exposing the Kremlin’s inability to fully defend its own territory.” This is a very valuable insight regarding the current state of the war. The British colonel openly acknowledges what we are achieving on our own. Without American aid, under international pressure, and under constant attack — Ukraine is still ramping up the pressure on Russia. Separately, the author mentions the internal situation in Russia: “All of this comes amid growing signs of unease inside Russia itself. Public criticism of the war, once almost unthinkable, is becoming more visible as ordinary Russians begin to question the price of Putin’s disastrous gamble in Ukraine. This criticism would be even more evident were it not for a recent crackdown on internet services in Russia and the silencing of many dissenting voices.” But the most important point in the article is made in the conclusion, to which I can only give a standing ovation: “What Saturday demonstrated beyond doubt is that Putin is wounded politically, militarily and psychologically. History teaches us that when a dangerous predator is weakened, that is precisely the moment to apply maximum pressure – not to offer concessions for the sake of expediency. The most effective time to kick a man is when he’s down.” “The West must ensure that Volodymyr Zelensky is empowered to secure a just peace for the Ukrainian people, rather than allowing Putin an escape route simply to bring the fighting to a premature close.” This is precisely the logic we have been repeating for four years in a row. Concessions to the aggressor do not end the war — they merely postpone it. Poland waited 45 years to gain its freedom after Yalta. The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria signed the Khasavyurt Accords — and then more than 20 percent of its population was massacred. Ukraine has no right to let such a fate befall its people.

"Five years ago I was kicked out of my job as presidential spokesperson (more of a North Korea-style public worshipper) because of my incompetence and endless scandals, so now I’m openly taking revenge on my own entire country during a war of extermination and participate in hostile war propaganda -- also because I have no talent, no principles, and nothing meaningful to offer beyond cheap opportunism and trash talk."

And for those who are particularly gullible and fall for empty clickbait headlines, I'd like to remind you that Yulia Mendel was disgracefully removed from her position as the presidential spokesperson as far back as in 2021, almost A FULL YEAR BEFORE Russia's full-scale invasion. So all of her "insider knowledge" about Zelensky's plans in 2022 of "giving up Donbas to Russia" in the "Istabul talks" is nothing more than empty talk and attention craving from a nobody.